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The Good News of Church Politics
When we think about politics we often think about the privileged vying for power. Alternatively, we might think about gridlock, about frustration, or about how little our voices seem to matter. Ross Kane has good news for us: church politics doesn’t have to work this way! In fact, it can even become a spiritual practice.
Syncretism and Christian Tradition
Syncretism has been a part of Christianity from its very beginning, when early Christians expressed Jesus’ Aramaic teachings in the Greek language. Ross Kane argues that the history of syncretism’s use accentuates wider interpretive problems, drawing attention to attempts by Christian theologians to protect the category of divine revelation from perceived human interference.
Research
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Articles
A selection of Dr. Kane’s popular writing:
- A Church Politics of Nondomination in Christian Century shows how anticolonialism and LGBTQ inclusion are based in the singular commitment to a church politics without domination.
- Training in Transcendence from Faith and Leadership shows how we can integrate spiritual practice into surprising places in our lives.
- How White Christians turned syncretism into an insult is a short summary of his book Syncretism and Christian Tradition.
- In The emergence of belief—and unbelief, Ross wonders if belief might be overrated after he read a great book by historian Ethan Shagan.